I'm halfway through Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station. It's a very engaging and approachable intellectual history of Marxism with a good deal of humanizing biographical content. So far I...
I'm halfway through Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station. It's a very engaging and approachable intellectual history of Marxism with a good deal of humanizing biographical content. So far I really enjoyed reading about Marx and Engels' youth and intellectual awakenings and feel motivated to try self-studying Hegel for the first time this spring. I like how Wilson explains that Marx and Engels' philosophy is widely misunderstood. For example, "Dialectical Materialism" is incongruous with the view that people mechanistically act from economic motives.
I'm halfway through Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station. It's a very engaging and approachable intellectual history of Marxism with a good deal of humanizing biographical content. So far I really enjoyed reading about Marx and Engels' youth and intellectual awakenings and feel motivated to try self-studying Hegel for the first time this spring. I like how Wilson explains that Marx and Engels' philosophy is widely misunderstood. For example, "Dialectical Materialism" is incongruous with the view that people mechanistically act from economic motives.